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Business Objects Looks Great
Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ), a French company that provides business intelligence (BI) to enterprises, is riding high on superlative second quarter performance announced on July 25. All its 3 major revenue lines – licensed software (Q2/07 revenue $149 million, up 21% year-over-year), maintenance ($152 million, +23% y-o-y) and global services ($62 million, +29% y-o-y) –
Web 3.0 & Online Movies (Part 2)
Top Ranking Sites Online Movies is emerging as a key segment in the US and today more and more users are going online for movie rentals, downloads, trailers, news, latest updates and show timings. This has resulted in increasing traffic to the various movie sites. Some of the top online movie sites are IMDb, Yahoo!
Serving the Underserved: Is On-Demand BI the Answer?
By David Hatch, Guest Author In my last post, I discussed how On-Demand BI may not be just for SMBs, based on some recent research findings, and that corporate plans for On-Demand delivery of BI applications (SaaS, Hosting, BI-Appliances) may be gaining ground within organizations of all sizes more rapidly than has been generally reported.
Concur’s SME Opportunity
I have just published an interview with Steve Singh, Concur’s CEO. In it, I trace the Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR) story in a great deal of detail that is well worth understanding, to see why this company has a strong growth opportunity ahead. As I said earlier, the SaaS and Extended Enterprise trend alignment are good
On-Demand BI – Not Just for SMB
By David Hatch, Guest Author As a brief introduction, Sramana Mitra and I, after a short on-line discourse, determined that my research into user organizations’ perspectives about BI technology, processes, and investment intentions would be of value to readers of this blog forum. As a primary researcher in the BI space, I am very interested
Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 12)
Much of the growth opportunity for Concur, in my opinion is in being able to effectively penetrate Small Medium Enterprise (SME) markets. Here, we discuss issues around market size and profitability of the sales channels. SM: Smaller deals, in the 1-20 range, you can probably close them all by phone and even in the mid
Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 11)
Steve says he does not segment his customer base by size. I push, because I think he should. SM: You do not have any bias one way or the other? SS: Not at all. Our distribution strategy is to reach customers of any size. We have no concentration of revenue, by customer or by market
Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 10)
A crucial advantage of any on-demand software model is the ability to reach into new customer bases. I press hard here to understand the demographics of the company further. SM: Help me understand your customer base a bit. Are you focused on Fortune 500, Global 2000 or are you focused on smaller companies? SS: Early
